Episode 2260 Scott Adams: Coffee With Scott 10⧸13⧸2023
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Join me for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day as we talk about all the things happening in the news. Today we discuss climate change, trans issues, immigration, climate change denial, and much more!
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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called
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coffee with scott adams now shortened to cwsa because that's how cool we are we don't need
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full words anymore no no no no if you'd like your experience of cwsa to go to new levels all you
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need is a cup of mug or a glass a tank of chelsea stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind
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fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee join me now for the unparalleled pleasure
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the dopamine hit of the day i think it makes everything better it's called the simultaneous
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well we'll talk about all the things happening in the news don't worry i like to start with some
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appetizers mental appetizers i call them now i mentioned this before but i think it's worth
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restating bill gates in a recent interview that's been getting around the internet said and i quote
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uh there's a lot of climate exaggeration said gates the climate is not the end of the planet
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so the planet is going to be fine and quote no temperate country is going to become uninhabitable
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don't you think that's a big deal and i and i feel like
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when you're watching the world fall apart with a you know the war in europe and the war in the
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east i feel like we're starting to put climate change in context
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i i feel like there are some things you can worry about when you don't have other problems
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let me ask you this have you ever seen less news about the trans
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situation in america i've never seen less trans news
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now while i'm fully you know sympathetic to the trans situation certainly want them to have
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perfectly good lives whatever makes them happy but i'm not sure it was ever the most important issue
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in the world it was closer to the bottom certainly critical issue to people directly involved but i think
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we're seeing a a real adjustment of our priorities in real time when you start to think about
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eating and survival you know you're worried a lot less about people's uh sexual orientations and
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genders and stuff like that but climate change i think is in that category um that people are going
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to understand that maybe there was a little hyperbole involved now i like the fact that bill gates said it
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because bill gates is the one person that everybody kind of thinks he's you know sort of the voice of
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climate change in a way i mean i think of him that way i don't really think of a greta
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you know or or carrie you know they're all deeply involved but i feel like bill gates was the one person
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who understood all the technology you know he knows nuclear he knows coal i mean he's got a sense of the
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whole field and if he says it's exaggerated or they can ignore him i feel like this is the like a real
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changing that to me this feels like a real inflection point and how the world thinks about climate change
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we'll see well tucker is making news being provocative tucker carlson and one of the things he said he came up
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with a bunch of provocative quotes but this one this one's a pretty pretty provocative he says what's
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happening on the southern border isn't just an invasion but a crime the politicians and ngos
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responsible for it are criminals who should be punished accordingly do you think that our politicians
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should be in jail for their current policies because that would be biden well just biden really it would
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just be one person because in america there's only one person who makes the decision so does he really
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think that biden should be in jail for a policy that isn't working out really jail wouldn't that be
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just um kind of repeating january 6th's mistake then imagining that people who are politicians and
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maybe they're doing their job maybe they would make mistakes but are they criminal just because people
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died from their mistakes pretty severe so i'm gonna disagree with tucker that these actions are criminal
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they're absolutely not criminal they are genocidal they're genocidal they guarantee that there will be
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genocide in this country if if not reversed almost immediately so now tucker you were completely wrong
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they should not be punished as criminals um but we should take seriously the fact that they've allowed
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genocide uh consciously it's a conscious decision because there's no way they don't understand
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what they're bringing into the country now to be clear the vast majority of immigrants just
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looking for a better life and i i welcome them even the illegal ones i'm happy to have illegal ones here
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too if it turns out they're here for the right reason you know it's not my first choice let's be clear
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first choice is full control of our borders but i'm not super concerned about hard-working
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christian families coming across the border and trying to fit in that that's just not where i'm
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going to put all my worry but i do think we need a secure border however the fact that they can come in
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also highlights the fact that anybody else can come in and there's no way we're not being invaded by
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terrorists you know that right there's no way the terrorists are staying home they're definitely
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coming in and we're going to see something not too unlike what happened in israel probably in the
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next five years five years i guess you're going to see something like that so yes whoever is bringing
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in genocide to our country maybe we should consider different leadership let's talk about the speaker of
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the house now i'm not sure i know all the you know the back room dealings and personalities and all that
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but i did see one thing that i liked a lot so when it looked like it was going to be jim jordan or steve
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scalise jim jordan endorsed the other guy he endorsed scalise now i'm trying to figure out how clever this was
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because it could turn out just to be freaking genius because what happened was scalise found out he
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couldn't get the support he needed for the job and he took himself out now jim jordan seems to be the
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likely person to take the job after endorsing his competitor oh you can't win harder than that
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just think of anything that's a bigger win than endorsing your opponent and then winning
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that that's the perfect situation the the whole job of the speaker is to figure out how to make people
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get along you know and jim jordan's sort of a fire thrower but you know he throws his fire at the
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democrats so the fact that he would play it this way which shows you know real skill i think
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it looked like real skill now this assumes i'm making a lot of assumptions here i can't read his
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mind but i'm assuming he knew that scalise either would get the job then it would be easy to work with
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him which would be not a bad outcome or he would not get the job and jordan would look like the
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cross the aisle well it's just not across the aisle but he would look like a peacemaker it's kind
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of perfect yeah i don't have a strong opinion about jim jordan one way or the other but if the
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republicans think that's their guy you know i don't have a special problem with it or i don't really have
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a prediction about it either i would say he's very capable seems very uh seems well liked in general
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on the republican side so we'll see that could work out um i saw matt gates saying that uh you know
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somebody questioned how this could be an improvement you know wouldn't it have been better some say to
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just let mccarthy stay there because he was good at his job and we you know we'd have somebody in
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charge during these critical times to which matt gates said he lied repeatedly so if we get somebody
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in the job who doesn't lie to us repeatedly that's an upgrade i agree totally that you can't have a
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speaker of the house who's lying to you repeatedly his whole job is to be trusted i mean that's that's so
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baked into the whole core process if if somebody's making promises to people you know in order to
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pull a little coalition together for some some specific thing you can't lie to those people
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there'll never be another coalition so you know i can't fact check how much lying went on and if it's
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you know more than the usual politician or anything like that i don't have a sense of that
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but i love that as a standard i love the standard that you'll fire your own boss
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for lying to you repeatedly i don't think i can love that more honestly now again mccarthy would
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probably say he didn't do any lying so let's let's be honest i don't know exactly who's doing what
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but if it's true they that the boss got fired for lying to the uh staff you know effectively
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i love that that's that's a move ahead so matt gates i think you get the win on this
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in my opinion um now all those smart people um you know the smart people right smart people the
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pundits the people we've elected to lead us you know the smart people they are unified in one thing
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they're saying that not having a speaker of the house uh is causing immense harm to america
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and i couldn't agree with it more let me just list all the immense harms i mean just so far i mean
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it's early but just so far from not having a speaker of the house let's see some of the immense harms were
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um um well never mind never mind next story salon has a big article um about the trump lovers being
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a cult now it appears that that's going to be a main line of attack this time that it's a cult
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oh don't join the cult they don't know what they're doing because they're in a cult
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so salon uh talks to some psychologists who i would recommend you never ever go to a psychologist
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every time i see a psychologist making any kind of comment about the news you know something that's
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related to the news i just shake my head and say okay that's the experience i had you know the one
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time i went to a like a marriage counselor i thought i might be with the dumbest person
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who ever lived that's what i thought so but apparently the ones they talk to will say things
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in the news and be on record uh not exactly painting their profession in glory but uh one of the
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psychologists they talked to said that uh the trumpers the maggot people are a cult because and this is
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important for the definition of a cult because people would be afraid to leave the cult
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what what they heard of desantis he's making a lot of news he's like a governor he's running for
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president do you know that uh dave rubin backs desantis and i still talk to him i know i know
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like like like if he texts me i'll actually return his text he left the cult and yet amazingly i don't hate
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his fucking guts he's still the great guy that he was before who knew who knew you could actually be a
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you know i'm the perfect example uh you know i was obviously well associated with sporting trump
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at the moment i'm uh endorsing vivek i've had no problems with that what was i supposed to be
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ostracized from the cult where when did that happen i registered as democrat this year just so i'd
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you know uh slimed the democrats with my own bad reputation nobody cared nobody cared uh what what is
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it that what is it the democrats are seeing that would suggest mega people couldn't change their mind
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and live a happy life it's like ridiculously easy to do i didn't i didn't even know there was a risk
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nobody told me there was some risk involved of that i had no idea
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well um speaking of cults i remind you that on monday i have a volunteer a democrat and a mega hater
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has volunteered i finally found somebody who would do this in public so on spaces the audio feature
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on the x platform on this monday 10 16 at 6 30 p.m eastern time i'll be talking to you if all goes
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well i hope he shows up i think he will um and i'll be deprogramming a democrat in public now i want
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to be clear it's not a debate it's not a debate debate is useless i'm actually going to deprogram
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or that's the attempt now before you get all you know cocky and you think ah we're going to deprogram
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those democrats i could do the same thing with a republican it would be different topics but i could
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do the same thing so don't get too cocky if if this works out i might do a republican next because
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there's nobody who's not in their own bubble there's nobody who's not in the bubble in fact
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um as i tweeted today the world is in what i call phase one of waking up
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in phase one of waking up which would be another way of saying you know learning to understand your
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actual reality better that would be the waking up part in phase one we we realize that our adversaries
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are not always uh you know stupid and evil and under-informed that they're literally brainwashed
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would you say that that's an accurate statement of the people you disagree with would you say that
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hamas is brainwashed you would yeah of course you would you say since most of my audiences
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leans right would you say that the people on the left are brainwashed does is that word too strong
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or would you agree with that characterization yes yes now and you know of course as i just mentioned
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you know the people you're calling brainwashed you know that they're calling you brainwashed
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you all know that right so we're in phase one where we're sure we're not but the other people are
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and the fact that they're calling us brainwashed well it's just another symbol of how brainwashed they
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are that's phase one that's where we are phase two should we survive as a species to get to it
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is understanding that we're all in our own bubbles there's no such thing as the other person is
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brainwashed they are but it's really not about the other person being brainwashed it's about everybody
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everybody has the opinion assigned to them by their choice of media now they start with a preference
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either might it might even be baked into your your genes a little bit there's something about that i
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think that's true but beyond that your your specifics of your belief are just from the media
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it's just brainwashing and it applies to both sides now i want to be clear that doesn't mean
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that both sides are wrong you get that right when i say wrong i mean in terms of any policies that come
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out of it one side is going to have policies that work better than the other side and then you know
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not necessarily always the same side so so policies are different from the fact that one side might be
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brainwashed well actually both sides all right so if you'd like to see the first part of this the
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phase one deprogramming monday at 6 30 eastern time i hope that actually happens it'll be live so
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anything could happen including um the guest not showing up but i think you will all right yeah nbc news
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uh has embarrassed itself i missed this story but apparently uh yesterday or so they had claimed on nbc news
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that they had quote gained access to the community notes function on x and once they had gained access
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they determined that uh uh that instead of fighting false and misleading information there were false
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things on that had been totally unattended and so therefore this community notes thing
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not so good that's what they said and then the fact check came in from community notes
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that's right community notes fact checked nbc story about community notes
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um and here's what they said um i will paraphrase you did not gain access to any special twitter system
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they merely talked to somebody who does community notes and there's just somebody who is a community
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notes person who just showed on their screens and do you know about those things that they were uh
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that they were ignoring they're just things that they had not yet added a note to
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that was nbc's big story they looked over somebody's shoulder and didn't understand what they were
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seeing that's it that was their investigative report so just so you don't think salon is a ridiculous uh
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bullshit nbc news also some ridiculous bullshit and if i mentioned msnbc let's talk about them
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apparently they experienced a 33 percent decline in prime time ratings
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because of how they covered uh the hamas uh war with israel 33 percent decline now
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you get declining ratings in a hot war is that the only time that's ever happened in the history of the
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united states you know since we've had media i've never even heard of that have you do you think
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during the the gulf wars do you think that there was any news network that lost viewers during a war
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i'm not even sure this is true i feel like maybe the news isn't true
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i mean could they really have dropped 33 percent now i understand what the problem was
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they were a little bit maybe trying to be balanced about something that their viewers thought should not
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be balanced right that's probably what it was um but man they just got creamed well
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fox news numbers shot up 42 percent even cnn that went up 17 percent msnbc down 33 percent now here's what i
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i think is what i think is happening i think they lost their jewish audience and their uh jewish supporting
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audience you know anybody who was like-minded uh that's probably the whole story yeah so msnbc was not
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were they too woke does that apply because i'm not sure where wokeness overlaps with what anybody would
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think about the middle east the middle east is kind of separate from wokeness isn't it
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not completely yeah well there you go so msnbc learned a valuable lesson today
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um i think it's interesting that when i got up this morning and checked the x platform one of the
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words that was trending was brainwashing brainwashing was trending and it wasn't because somebody had been
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captured in the military sense and brainwashed it's now being used as a headline word to describe the
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things we're seeing which we used to describe other ways why do we describe it as brainwashing now
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when we used to describe it as just people disagree what's different
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what changed to make people what what what changed to make people see it as brainwashing
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just one of the things it's just one just one of the impacts was me i've been reframing this as
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two movies on one screen for a long time if you hear two movies on one screen long enough and then you
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see an example of action like a war was a good example then you see it so clearly that at the very
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least you know the other people are brainwashed at the very least we used to think that the news was real
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oh it looks like uh stream yard is just totally stopped
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let's see if i end it and restart it see what happens oh it's completely dead
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give me a minute i'm gonna reboot this oh i can't move this
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Sorry, my screen froze up there, but we're back.
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And I got this comment today on the X platform from a user called Paisano, who said, among other things, he said, I'm thoroughly enjoying your new book, Reframe Your Brain.
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My new book that's changing lives all over the place.
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Probably the most important book I've ever written.
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Because it's changing people's lives the fastest and the most.
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He says, as a trained hypnotist master of persuasion, why are you and others like Robert Cialdini trying to launch widespread reframes to make the world a better place?
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So, Paisano is asking, with my skills, why don't I fix, you know, world peace, world peace.
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Now, I don't like to complain, but most authors get asked for autographs.
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Sometimes people say, oh, could you add more than the autograph?
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Could you say, you know, to my brother, you know, John, and put a little message there?
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Almost never does somebody ask an author to use his powers to force world peace.
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But to you, Paisano, I say, challenge accepted.
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Vivek Ramaswamy is making news at the very hardest time that anybody can make news, which is when there's something more interesting going on.
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Did one of them come off better than the other?
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It looked to me like Hannity had some kind of a weird meltdown.
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It looked like Hannity was trying to take Vivek out of the race and failed completely.
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But he basically just made himself look like a partisan in not the best way.
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But, you know, I'm pro-Vivek, so I might be too biased about that.
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This is the 300th time Vivek has said something inflammatory.
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And feigned moral outrage that he was being somehow mischaracterized.
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First of all, I don't think Matt meant 300 times literally.
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And those who don't understand hyperbole end up debating the wrong things.
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It's just directionally he's saying this guy does this too much.
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But here's a little media watching trick for you.
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this is not somebody you should pay attention to.
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Just look for the word verbatim in the sentence.
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This is the 300th time Vivek has been presented with something.
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then feigned moral outrage that he was being somehow mischaracterized.
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almost all of the major political hoaxes are based on verbatims.
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Here's this video clip of the president of the United States
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And it's also so in a context that it literally reversed its meaning from condemning them to praising them.
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The part we're going to selectively cut out is called a rupar.
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When you selectively edit and take the verbatim.
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And then what do people say when you complain that it's not true?
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So when you hear the word verbatim or the words, I heard it or saw it myself,
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People don't use those words about real things.
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There's some words that people consistently use are things that aren't real.
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And once you learn those words, you spot them right away.
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So yes, it's probably the right words, but the wrong context.
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Then Dan Krenshaw, who is not too happy with Vivek.
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I guess there's a difference in how much military response
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Vivek would be more, let's not get involved in any military
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oh, maybe China will attack Taiwan unless we attack Ukraine.
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If it's directly involving us, such as the cartels,
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when it comes to issues of national security and foreign affairs.
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or existing American policy in the region, zero.
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Dan Krenshaw says that Vivek is a Hamas apologist
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Well, I've got a couple of observations about that.
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and I'll give you a better view here in a second.
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but they're not being good people when they do this, right?
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So it's more, I shouldn't say the people are bad.
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I should just say that they're doing something bad, right?
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If you say that somebody compared Gaza to the Holocaust,
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There are people who will make that comparison.
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Do you think that they meant that they're the same in all the ways?
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hey, you compared this bad thing to that bad thing,